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Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1977

The Road to Lichfield

Through the life-changing experiences of 40-year-old Ann, Penelope Lively offers a subtle exploration of memory and identity, chance and consequence

Type: Book
Date: 11 Oct 1984

According to Mark

A respectable married man becomes unstuck in Penelope Lively’s witty take on love, literature and the dangers of middle-aged folly

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1984

In Custody

A frustrated small-town scholar lands the opportunity of a lifetime, but only encounters more frustration in Anita Desai’s touching comic novel

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1987

Chatterton

Detective novel meets entertaining comedy in Peter Ackroyd’s century-hopping investigation into the mysterious death of Thomas Chatteron

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1989

Restoration

In Rose Tremain’s wry historical novel, a student abandons his studies to revel in gluttony, indolence and buffoonery at the Court of King Charles II

Type: Book
Date: 01 Jan 1993

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields presents a fictionalised autobiography chronicling the 20th century life of a seemingly ordinary woman born in Canada in 1905

Type: Book
Date: 29 Aug 2002

The Story of Lucy Gault

William Trevor’s haunting story of loss and hope captures the atmosphere of a country in turmoil and the heart-rending emotions of a family torn apart